Improvement in weather-strips



' I will proceed to describe.

GILEs H. OOLLINs, OF

IMPROVEMENT IN WEATHER-STRIPS. i

PATENT EEIOE.

WAYNE, MICHIGAN.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,394, dated July 5,1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GILES H. COLLINS, of Wayne, in the county of Waynea-nd State of Michigan, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Weather Strips for Doors 5 and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, in which- Figure l is a front view of the lower portionof a door with my improved weather-strip attached, showing the door inits closed position; Fig. 2, a similar view, with the guard Bremoved, toshow the devices by which the srip is operated. Fig. 3 is a view showingthe door swung Open and the strip elevated, the door-sill being shown insection; and Fig. 4 is a sectional view in the direction of the line :vx, taken when the door is thrown partly open, showing clearly theoperation Of the swinging lever D and spring-catch G.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

In the accompanying drawings, A repre- Feuts the weather strip proper,and B a guard-plate attached to the door by means of screws or otherwisefor the purpose Otl pro- 1ecting and concealing the mechanical devicesby which the strip is operated and of giving a neat finish tothe whole.The. strip A, which :hould be Ot' metal, is attached to the door bymeans of thc connecting-bar C, of wood, and the hinges a a.

b brepresent the heads of the screws by which the strip A is attached tothe connecting-bar C.

My invention consists, essentially, in an improved manner of operatingthis strip, which The door being closed, as shown in Fig. 2, it willbeobserved that the weather-strip is in close contact with 4the doorsill,and that the end of the slide E being in close contact with thedoorjamb, the spiral spring c (one end of which is secured to the buttonh, and the other wound round the tongue i, projecting from the slide E)is compressed. Upon opening the door the slide E, being relieved fromits contact with the jamb of the door, is thrown back by the action ofthe spring c until the hook-shaped spring-catchGr, which is secured tothe sliding bar E, is brought into the same vertical plane with thetumbler F, secured to the connecting-bar C, and at the same time thehanging lever D, which is vpivoted to the connecting-bar O by means ofthe pin f, is brought into contact with the door-sill, and, as the pingprevents its yielding forward,the effect is to swing the strip upwarduntil the tumbler F is caught by the spring-hook G and the lever D ispermitted to swing clear Of the door-sill, when the Outward movement ofthe door Inay be continued, the spring Gr securely retaining the stripin its elevated position and preventing its contact with the door. Uponclosing the door the end of the sliding bar E is brought into contactwith the frame Of the door and forced in the direction indicated by thearrow in Fig. 3, carrying with it the spring-catch G, and therebyreleasing the tumbler F from its connection therewith, when, by theaction ot the spring d, which eX- tends from the face Ot' the door(where it is attached to the button h) to the connectingbar C, theweather strip is depressed until brought into contact with the doorsill, as shown in Fig. 2. A plate Ot' metal, K, is attached to thedoor-sill at the point Over which the swinging lever D plays, to preventthe wearing away of the wood-work.

l am aware that spring-hooks attached to a door and catching in staplesfastened to a weather-strip have heretofore been used for the samepurpose that I here employ such a device, and that various arrangementsof sliding levers projecting beyond the edge Ot' the door and operatedby being brought into contact with the door-frame have also beenemployed, and hence l" do not claim either of these features broadly;but,

Having thus fully described an improved manner of Operatingweather-strips, what I claim as new and oi' my own invention, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The sliding bar E, having the springcatch G projecting therefrom,when combined with a door, and operating with reference to aweather-strip, A, and its attachments, substantially in the mannerherein set forth.

2. The swinging lever D, when operating in combination with the tumblerF, sliding bar E',.and spring-catch G, in the manner herein set forth.

The foregoing specitication of my improved weathenstrip signed this 6thday of April, A. D. 186i.

GILES H. COLLINS.

In presence oti-- GEO. O. ROBINSON, D. W. BROOKS..

